This is the home of the Apache OpenOffice.org Community Space.

This space is provided so the whole OpenOffice.org community can plan development. Anyone with a wiki account may add and edit the content.

This is not for core developer documentation. If you are working on core documentation then please do so on the Developer's Wiki

Help Wanted

We are looking for volunteers to do the following tasks.  If you are interested in working on any of these items, please send a note to the ooo-dev list and we can give you hints on how to accomplish the task.

Easy

1. Write up a simple SVN tutorial for novices and add to the project website, linked to from the Developer FAQs page.  Skills needed: SVN, technical writing.  Skills gained: Apache CMS
2. Document the procedures used by the PPMC to elect new committers and PPMC members, including form letters, userid generation, tracking, etc.  Link it from thePPMC FAQs page on the website.  Skills needed: writing.  Skills gained: Apache CMS.  Note: this task is suitable for existing PPMC members only.

Medium

Challenging

Project Planning

Functional Areas

There are some clearly defined functional areas in the OpenOffice.org project.  These are not rooms with walls separating them, but areas of focus.  Many project members work in more than one functional area, and any member is encouraged to participate across any or all of these areas.

• Podling PMC or PPMC.  This is the group of elected PMC members who have oversight of the project, who elect new committers and who approve releases
• Dev includes the C++/Java programmers, including specialists like UI design, accessibly, performance, core localization (Bidi, IME, etc.) etc. 
• QA includes the testing, manual and automated
• Translation/Localization provides the linguistic and cultural adaptability of the product
• Documentation includes in-product help as well as web-hosted documentation
• Support includes the support forums
• Marketing includes publicity, events, whitepaper, promotion, etc.

Project Milestones

There are several near-term milestones for the project that are inherent to the Apache Incubation process, and to the this project specifically:

• First Build is reached when we have received and stored into the repository the code from Oracle necessary to build the current version of OpenOffice.org on Windows, Linux and Mac. 
• First Release means that we have a build that is approved by the PPMC and IPMC for release.  
• OpenOffice.org Website transfer.  Oracle has offered to keep the existing OpenOffice.org website up for a transition period.  But we must develop a plan for how we eventually host that site.
• Graduate from Incubation means that we are approved to become an Apache Top Level Project (TPL).  This will be the final milestone for Incubation.

Plan Matrix

For each Functional Area and for each Project Milestone, we should have a plan, listing tasks that need to be done as well as names of project members who have volunteered to help with the task.  Tasks without volunteers are fine.  This will help us identify where we need help.  Please link to existing information where relevant.